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Laurie Taylor column
I see UUK's in serious trouble. I'm sorry. I stopped reading the comic strips years ago. No, it's not a cartoon character. It's a sort of acronym for Universities UK. What's that? UUK is the new name...
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Letter: Cool it
Like many other scientists, I am troubled by the unseemly controversy over claims that transgenic DNA may have spread to traditional varieties of Mexican maize ("Scientists call for reason in GM row...
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Letter: Poor political plays
We sabbatical officers wholeheartedly condemn the president and treasurer of the National Union of Students for sending a letter to all student union presidents urging them not to vote for Labour...
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Letter: Copywrongs
If the working paper on the exploitation of public-sector information is converted into a European Union directive, it spells the end of debate about copyright in higher education research ("Worry at...
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Letter: Post-92 pain
Your coverage of the funding allocations ( THES , March 8) showed little appreciation of the harm they will inflict on many new universities. Removing £17 million of collaboration research funding...
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Letter: King should stick to science
David King, government chief scientific adviser, argued at the launch of National Science Week this week that the United Kingdom should invest in new nuclear power stations to reduce carbon dioxide...
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Letter: Fail-safe methods?
Streaming without a change in teaching methods is unlikely to solve the problem of students whose mathematics is weak ("Keeping up with the smart 'set'", THES , March 1). It is more likely to...
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Letter: Raise Gats game
The tone of debate over education services in the General Agreement on Trade in Services is disappointing. Many people decry the potential loss of quality that an influx of private providers might...
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Letter: Chutzpah and the RAE 1
Professor Lapping's otherwise insightful analysis of citations as an index of research excellence (Laurie Taylor, THES , March 8) misses one important point - the willingness of researchers to cite...
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Letter: Chutzpah and the RAE 2
Lapping, Odgers and Quintock neglect a deeper flaw in the citation index method for the RAE than "gratuitous citing", namely PABHEPITRY (publish absolute bollocks hoping everyone piles in to rubbish...
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Letter: The Cambridge train 1
Malcolm Grant writes admiringly of universities that place a premium on central leadership and that have central control over resources, but as a pro vice-chancellor he would, wouldn't he ("The world...
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Letter: The Cambridge train 2
I could not agree more with Malcolm Grant on the opportunities for Cambridge with 21st-century governance. During six years on the University of Surrey council, I saw the lay members bring real-world...
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Letter: Linguistic Enronitis
David Adger (Letters, THES , March 1) makes generative linguistics sound as productive and innocuous as a job at Enron. To split psychology and sociology of language may suit academic divisions of...
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Leader: Be brave, it's time to resist foody friends
Monday's seminar on food, at the Royal Institution, coming at the end of National Science Week, provides an opportunity both for discussion of the food we eat and the power of global companies to...